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D K : Well, for Los Angeles County, one of the CALIFORNIA BLACK MEDIA (CBM): What t h i n g s is that it’s so very diverse. In L.A. has your office done to reach out to Blacks in California U n i f i e d School District, they speak – particularly to the the Black population here in Los over 200 languages. That is Angeles? what makes our state so DITAS KATAGUE (DK): As you know, statewide, beautiful and the money and the investment that both the governor so diverse, but it and the legislature have made across the state have been also makes it very hard to unprecedented. count.

That’s because California is the hardest-to-count state Now, when we talk about hard to count from the state State Director for CA 2020 Census Ditas Katague (Courtesy Photo) in the country. In fact, the City of L.A. is the hardest-to- Continued on page A6

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Most Holiday Shopping Online Three Quarters Are “Excited” when Brands Send Deals in Emails

Gone are the days of coupon clipping, instead consumers prefer to receive discounts and deals from brands via email. In fact, two-thirds of respondents reported they open emails from brands they believed contained product deals or sales. (Photo: iStockphoto / NNPA)

SAN FRANCISCO — Leanplum, the leading multi-channel engagement platform, today announced the results of a new study* that shows consumers are shunning brick-and-mortar stores this holiday season with over 95 percent choosing to buy half or more of their gifts online.

Younger Americans (Millennials and Gen Zs) are leading the online shopping trend and over 16 percent are “only” shopping online this holiday season.

As shopping online and via mobile devices quickly becomes the new norm, personalized communication becomes even more crucial to brand success. With 80 percent of respondents reporting that they shop on their mobile phones, brands need solutions that enable them to reach their customers at appropriate touchpoints. Brands must successfully connect the right way and at the right time with their customers.

Three-quarters of shoppers find it helpful to receive emails from retailers regarding deals and promotions.

Interestingly, 74 percent of those surveyed said they were “excited” to receive notifications from retailers about offers/sales. After receiving a notification from a brand about a deal, almost 70 percent said they would check out the offer and probably purchase the item.

However, 75 percent of respondents said generic messages from retailers annoy or bother them. Consumers have a preference for when and how they would like to receive messages from retailers. It is imperative retailers communicate with their consumers regularly regarding topics that are useful to them and in the form that they are most comfortable engaging with, to ensure consumer satisfaction and retention.

“Personalizing customer experience and communication is the cornerstone of everything we do at Afterpay,” said Frazer Adnam, CRM marketing director at Afterpay, a Leanplum customer. “Christmas is a key trading period for Afterpay and the retail sector, so it’s imperative we deliver a world-class personalization

experience to our customers and make trading seamless.”

Across all income levels, consumers reported sales as the primary reason they opened notifications from brands and retailers. Surprisingly, even respondents who earn $150,000 or more annually, stated they are most excited to receive push notifications from retailers regarding sales.

Gone are the days of coupon clipping, instead consumers prefer to receive discounts and deals from brands via email. In fact, two-thirds of respondents reported they open emails from brands they believed contained product deals or sales.

When asked about favorite shopping apps, the Amazon app dominated with 82 percent of the vote.

Walmart was a very distant second with five percent of the vote, followed by second-hand marketplaces (eBay/ Poshmark/ThredUp) at four percent and Target at three percent.

Consumers had opinions about how brands communicate with them as well. Sweden’s H&M handily beat out other brands with 19 percent of the vote. Urban Outfitters (12 percent), Asos (four percent), Zara (four percent) and Brandy Melville (two percent) rounded out the top five best brands at communicating with consumers.

“As shopping habits shift online and away from brickand-mortar stores, brands must adjust to communicate with their customers via mobile,” said Momchil Kyurkchiev, CEO and co-founder of Leanplum. “Through our research, we see that it’s important that brands provide a personalized experience for each customer. At Leanplum, our core mission is to enable our customers to consistently deliver relevant, timely and personalized communications to their end users.”

Other interesting statistics include: • Nearly half (46 percent) of respondents said that they’ve bought a product because it was shown in an app or sent in an email • Over half (52 percent) of Millennials and Gen Zs will shop on Cyber Monday and Black Friday compared to just over a third of Gen Xers and Baby Boomers • About two-thirds of respondents that make $150,000 or more annually plan to do most of their holiday shopping online this year Download the complete survey report for additional tips and insights. *Leanplum surveyed 1,000 online shoppers in the United States, October 2019.

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Black Caucus Visits US-Mexico Border

“Mistreatment of Black Immigrants is Another ‘Stain on America’”

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA) (center), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) (fourth from left), and Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D-NY) (far left), along with local Congressman, Rep. Juan Vargas (second from left), visited a shelter for African asylum-seekers in Tijuana November 22, 2019. Attorney Nana Gyamfi, the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (far right), joined the group at the border. (Photo: Screen capture KPBS / YouTube)

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent Chairwoman Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) led a delegation of Congressional Black Caucus members to the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday in San Ysidro, California, where they said they witnessed first-hand the deplorable treatment and plight of Black immigrants.

Bass, Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), and Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D-NY), each said they wanted to examine the treatment – and call attention to the mistreatment – of African immigrants at the border, including the October 1 death of 37-year-old Cameroon immigrant Nebane Abienwi.

Attorney Nana Gyamfi, the executive director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, joined the group at the border.

“It was a very frustrating experience today,” Bass said from the border during an exclusive conference call with publishers, editors, and writers for the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA), the trade association that represents the newspaper and media companies that comprise the Black Press of America.

“We crossed the border into Tijuana, Mexico, and we met with a group of Black immigrants from Cameroon, Sierra Leone, and other African countries. Some who have

made unbelievable journeys,” Bass stated.

The CBC Chair and her colleagues blasted the Trump administration and its policies toward immigrants, particularly those from countries that consist predominately of people of color.

Bass described the sobering plight of a Black migrant from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

“The first child separated from her mother was from a family from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The child was sent to Illinois while the mother, who spoke French, was detained at the border,” Bass stated.

“This happens as our country grapples with [a president] who makes it clear that he welcomes immigrants from places like Norway, but not ‘sh-thole’ countries. He’s breaking the law. International law states that if you are from a country that’s experiencing distress, you can request asylum. Trump has done everything he can to block that and to make the United States not compliant with international law,” Bass noted.

In the case of Abienwi, the Cameroonian died in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement after experiencing a hypertensive event at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego.

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Toddler Dies After Naked Mom’s Deadly LA Crash SANTA CLARITA, CA (AP) – A 2-year-old girl whose mother crashed their car while driving naked has died, two days after the Los Angeles-area crash that also killed the girl’s sister.

Authorities say the Bakersfield toddler died of her injuries Wednesday at a hospital.

Her 6-year-old sister died Monday and her mother remains hospitalized in stable condition.

The California Highway Patrol says the Subaru crashed Monday morning in Stevenson Ranch, an unincorporated area north of Los Angeles.

Authorities say the car veered into an oncoming traffic lane and hit a curb, sign, a tree and traffic signals before slamming into a utility pole and catching fire.

Good Samaritans rescued the woman and freed the girls from their seatbelts in the backseat moments before it caught fire.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

Bakersfield Police Say Woman Tampered with Officer’s Food BAKERSFIELD, CA (AP) – A California woman who lost a police excessive force lawsuit was arrested on suspicion of tampering with an officer’s food at a McDonald’s restaurant.

The Bakersfield Californian reported 21-year-old Tatyana Hargrove was arrested Friday after the restaurant provided video to the Kern County Sheriff’s Office.

A Bakersfield Police Department spokesman confirmed the food was served to one of its officers.

Hargrove sued the Bakersfield police in 2017 after two officers mistook her for a male suspect and she was bitten by a police dog.

Hargrove says she was thrown to the ground and punched in the face, while the officers say the encounter was less confrontational than Hargrove described.

The Bakersfield police chief apologized, but a jury found in a favor of the city and the officers.

Till Memorial Vandalism Security A commission behind a memorial for teenage lynching victim Emmett Till in Mississippi was forced to get a new sign with a bulletproof front and add cameras and alarms after repeated vandalism.

It’s one of numerous monuments to U.S. civil rights figures or events around the country that vandals have attacked through the years, forcing organizations and elected officials to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on repairs and surveillance.

There’s no movement to pass federal protections for such memorials. Advocates of the sites say their only recourse has been to rely on local and state vandalism and hate crime laws to prosecute suspects.

The need for protection came into focus again this month after security cameras captured white nationalists trying to film in front of the new Till memorial sign.

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Bloomberg: I Apologize! ‘

By Herb Boyd New York Amsterdam News Was it Trump? Was it Obama? Nope. The surprise visitor last Sunday to the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn was former Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Not until the mega church’s Senior Pastor, the Rev. A. R. Bernard, introduced him to the crowded pews, was anyone aware it

would be Bloomberg.

“I hope you don’t mind that a good friend of mind has stopped by this morning,” Rev. Bernard said to his congregation and then announced Bloomberg’s presence.

Many of those in the front pews of the church knew he

FILE - In this Feb. 26, 2019, file photo, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at a news conference at a gun control advocacy event in Las Vegas. Tennessee’s top election officials say Bloomberg has requested a petition that would require securing 2,500 signatures from registered voters in less than a month if he wants to qualify for the state’s Democratic presidential primary ballot. The secretary of state’s office confirmed Wednesday, Nov. 13, that Bloomberg requested the ballot petition earlier this week. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

was there but the press lodged in the balcony had no idea he was there. Bloomberg mounted the stage, greeted the audience, and moved quickly into his remarks after accepting rather polite applause. He said that this wasn’t the first time he had been to the church, “in fact, and my mother didn’t know this, I spent more time in church than the temple.” But Bloomberg’s purpose, as his candidacy for president becomes more and more a reality, was to clear up some missteps in the past during his three terms as mayor.

“We didn’t get everything right,” he admitted after citing various achievements during his administrations and warming to the central topic of stop-and-frisk. He said he could have acted faster on stop-and-frisk. “I was wrong, and I am sorry.”

He said he was too “focused on saving lives…and hindsight is twenty/twenty” and that he gradually began to halt the arrests of an overwhelming number of Black and Latino men.

Again, the response was lukewarm and the balcony, which earlier rocked when the gospel singers lifted their voices, was now calm. The listeners attentive. The press was given a handout showing a 39 percent reduction in incarceration during Bloomberg’s mayoralty; that murders were cut by 50 percent, while the national average only experienced an 11 percent reduction; and as he noted during his brief speech, racial and ethnic minorities became the majority of the NYPD. While Bloomberg admitted that his first term in 2002 was terrible, he didn’t mention that there were more than 92,000 stops and that by 2011 there were more than 685,000 stops, the majority of whom were Black and Latino, and 90 percent of them innocent of any wrongdoing. His critics viewed these tactics as a form of terrorism, a fear factor that played well to those opposed to his measures of gun violence.

And after his apology, he returned to the theme of gun violence which was at the top of his comments. According to the handout he is among the nation’s leading advocates on gun control. He said his Young Men’s Initiative to reduce violence, prompted President Obama to create his My Brother’s Keeper program.

“So that’s why the press was here,” one of the church members seated nearby observed.”

Debate Clash Pushes Race Issue

By BILL BARROW and KATHLEEN RONAYNE Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) – Democratic presidential candidates put race at the forefront of their primary scramble Thursday, punctuated by a tense exchange between Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris after the white mayor connected his experiences as a gay man to black Americans’ long struggle against racism.

Harris, one of three black candidates seeking the nomination, criticized Buttigieg in a post-debate event in Atlanta, calling him “naive’’ and lambasting him for comparing the struggles of the black and LGBTQ communities. A Democrat who wants a winning coalition “should not be in position of saying one group’s pain is equal than or greater to another,’’ said Harris, a California senator.

Buttigieg, the white mayor of South Bend, Indiana,

who wed his husband, Chasten, last year, countered that he was not comparing the travails of the LGBTQ community and black America, but instead speaking up for one discriminated class based on his experiences in another.

The exchange highlights the importance of the black vote in the Democratic nomination process and both candidates’ struggles to win them over. It also threatens to expose an uneasy relationship in the party’s civil rights coalition, as Democrats increasingly recognize LGBTQ rights as a priority alongside their decadeslong alignment with the civil rights movement for African Americans.

Harris and Buttigieg are among several Democratic candidates trying to dent former Vice President Joe Biden’s advantage among black Democrats. Biden met Thursday with a group of prominent black Southern mayors, including Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance-Bottoms, who has emerged as one of his top campaign surrogates.

Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts held dueling rallies on Atlanta’s historically black college campuses, pitching their progressive policy slates to a younger African American audience that is viewed as up for grabs.

Buttigieg has surged to an apparent lead in overwhelmingly white Iowa, which holds the nation’s first caucus Feb. 3, but he and his aides acknowledge that he needs to improve on his negligible support in the black community in other states if he hopes to become the nominee. Harris is still trying to crack the top tier in Iowa and beyond, and she used the Atlanta debate Wednesday to make a direct appeal to black women while pitching herself as the ideal nominee to rebuild the multiracial coalition that twice sent Barack Obama to the Oval Office.

The Buttigieg-Harris flap spun off the mayor saying

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Lizzo Premieres Emotional Ballad at AMAs

If ABC sees a ratings spike from Sunday’s American Music Awards, they can go ahead and blame it on Lizzo.

The singer — who entered the 2019 AMAs with three nominations, including New Artist of the Year — had everyone at the Los Angeles’ Microsoft Theater feeling loose with a fiery performance of her new single “Jerome.”

Watch footage of Lizzo’s performance below (with official video to be added when it becomes available): Taking into consideration all of Lizzo’s previous televised performances, expectations were understandably high for her debut at Sunday’s American Music Awards.

Need we remind you of her performance at the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards earlier this year? (Four words: World’s. Largest. Bouncing. Booty.)

Lizzo’s spotlight moment at the AMAs is just the latest in a series of personal victories for the fierce flutist this month. Not only was she recently nominated for eight Grammy Awards — including Album of the Year for Cuz I Love You — but it was also announced that she’ll make her Saturday Night Live debut as Eddie Murphy’s musical guest on Dec. 21.

Lizzo – who earned eight Grammy nominations performed at last Sunday’s American Music Awards.

Dear Hollywood, Wise Up On Aging

By Cheryl Brown and Stuart Greenbaum Special To California Black Media Partners Does Hollywood lead or follow when it comes to important social causes? Judging by recent concerns of equality, equity and diversity - it mostly follows. The bottom line, that is: the money, the box office, the ratings.

Which is only fair since entertainment is business, after all, not charity.

Suppose, however, there is a vital cause that Hollywood cannot only lead, but offers the industry the potential to produce both economic and social benefits? It would be an opportunity for redemption, not to mention the role of a lifetime. And it would be a surefire winner: Promote healthy and purposeful longevity.

Hollywood need only refer to the industry’s old adage for inspiration: Every story is a coming-of-age story. Ironically, older adults are under-represented and misrepresented on TV and film. They make up about 20 percent of the population but only about 10 percent of the speaking roles on TV and film. Worse, according to 2017 research conducted by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, ageist comments appeared in 41 percent of TV shows they analyzed.

The numbers don’t add up. Individuals 65-andolder are the fastest growing segment of society. Within a generation, older adults will outnumber children under the age of 18 for the first time in history. They watch twice as much TV as 18-34-year-olds, according to the Nielsen ratings. And, as Oxford Economics reports, individuals

50-and-over control almost 80 percent of the net worth in the United States and account for a disproportionate amount of consumer spending.

Hollywood has the opportunity to make good at the box office and do good for society. This fortunate coincidence, the California Commission on Aging determined, should be exploited. As state government’s mandated advocate on behalf of older adults, the Commission convened representatives from the fields of entertainment and aging in May 2018 to advance their mutually beneficial goals.

The resultant “Wise Up On Aging” (@ WiseUpOnAging) initiative encourages Hollywood’s content developers to represent older adults and agingrelated storylines more authentically and more often. In effect, to “normalize” rather than contrive our longevity.

Represent aging as something everyone will experience; as all-inclusive as it is inevitable. At the same time shelve the stereotypes of older adults as frail and senile, clueless and cranky, unfiltered and unaware, and dependent and depressed. And minimize the other overwrought tropes and memes of older adults as doting grandparents, annoying in-laws and defiant bucket-listers. The best storytelling educates and elevates while it entertains.

The truth is older adults are complex, multidimensional and diverse. Our physicality, mentality and emotions differ as much as with any age. Moreover, it is critical to understand that “older” is a relative term.

Between the millions of mature 50-year-olds represented

by AARP and the 50,000-plus centenarians alive today,

there are five decades of distinct generations and life styles and experiences.

“The industry is becoming more integrated, diversified … and ageless,” veteran actress Marla Gibbs, shares.

Known from “The Jeffersons,” “Blackish” (above photo) and nearly 100 other films and TV shows in her fourdecades-plus career, Gibbs has witnessed historic social movements influence the culture of Hollywood and vice versa. “I appreciate my recurring roles as well as the new ones that are planned. I believe Hollywood is heading in the right direction,” Gibbs says. But is quick to add, “To see more older-adult roles and aging storylines, audiences need to show their support.”

Everyone has a role to play in this initiative.

What does it mean for Hollywood to “wise up on aging?” For example, content developers can trust authorities to help navigate aging-related issues such as health concerns, abilities and challenges, opportunities and expectations, language and labels, relevancy and purpose, and lifestyles and living conditions. They can cast against type and include older adults randomly in roles that typically go to younger people. And, for reality’s sake, producers and showrunners can take advantage of older writers with real-life, first-hand experience.

Aging advocates have a serious role to play as well. This includes the California Commission on Aging and other professionals in the field of aging, whose message is that, sooner or later, the aging process affects all of us … not them. How well we support older adults today will impact

those who follow our footsteps. This is “generativity:” one generation helping the next. Whereas the USC research confirms Hollywood needs to expand its view of aging, advocates can incentivize content developers with more sanguine research by Yale from 2002 which found that older adults with a positive perception of their own aging experience live an average of 7.5 years longer. This is not to suggest that all portrayals and storylines featuring older adults need to be positive, simply realistic.

With all due respect and humility, there is no telling Hollywood what they should do. But there are ways for viewers to be agents of change by encouraging and ultimately influencing their actions. If not already, older adult viewers should become familiar with cable and streaming platforms which tend to be more progressive in embracing older adults as a relevant, albeit niche audience.

Viewers should support TV shows and films that get aging right. And they should be vocal and share perspectives on social media, and with editors and reviewers.

To Hollywood, positive word-of-mouth is more than desirable, it is bankable. Regardless, there is no certainty the industry will take the lead on showing respect for older adults. Though they will definitely follow the money, which for better and worse is an ageless pursuit. Thus, it is for aging advocates and viewers of all ages to let Hollywood know we’re keeping a critical eye on how well the TV and film industry ages into the future.

Bill Cosby Speaks from Prison

By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia November 24, 2019 — Bill Cosby breaks his silence, granting his first exclusive interview since beginning his sentence at SCI-Phoenix, a maximum-security Pennsylvania penetentiary near Philadelphia.

Today, in a special phone call with the National Newspaper Publishers Association’s BlackPressUSA.com, Cosby said he’s spending his time helping to teach and encourage a large population of African American inmates – men he calls residents — via Mann Up, a prison reform program.

The 82-year-old educator and award-winning TV producer/director/comedian was sentenced to serve 3-to10-years in Pennsylvania’s prison system following his September 2018 conviction on charges of aggravated indecent assault.

Unless he receives relief from the state’s appellate courts, Cosby said he fully anticipates serving his entire sentence, saying he’s not guilty and will never admit to something he didn’t do. Displayed remorse is generally a required prerequisite to obtaining parole or a shortened sentence.

During the exclusive interview with NNPA, Cosby was candid, vivid and outspoken.

Andrew Wyatt, Cosby’s spokesman, was also on the call, where Cosby stressed that there would be no ground rules or restrictions. No topics were off-the-table for discussion.

Cosby received no special treatment from the facility for this interview. Because inmates are only allowed to remain on phone calls for 15-minutes, Cosby had to call back multiple times in order to complete today’s interview.

“I have eight years and nine months left,” Cosby stated. “When I come up for parole, they’re not going to hear me say that I have remorse. I was there. I don’t care what group of people come along and talk about this when they weren’t there. They don’t know.”

He said his trials were a sham, unjust and not fair.

“It’s all a set up. That whole jury thing. They were imposters,” Cosby stated.

“Look at the woman who blew the whistle,” he said, alluding to the potential juror who overheard a seated juror proclaim before the trial that, “he’s guilty, we can all go home now.”

“Then she went in and came out smiling, it’s something attorneys will tell you is called a payoff,” Cosby stated. “I know what they’ve done to my people. But my people are going to view me and say, ‘that boy looks good. That boy is strong.’ I have too many heroes that I’ve sat with. Too many heroes whom I listened to like John Henrik Clarke, Kenneth Clark, and Dorothy Height. Those people are very strong, and they saw the rejection of their people. This is political. I can see the whole thing.”

“I am a privileged man in prison,” he stated.

During the call, Cosby referred to his small cell as “my penthouse.”

He revisited his famous 2004 “Pound Cake” speech and clarified that he probably should not have addressed that controversial dissertation to all African Americans – the residents at SCI-Phoenix make for the perfect audience, Cosby stated.

Cosby said he remains concerned, however, for all of Black America.

“They are under siege. This thing with the drugs and the different pockets of the neighborhoods where it’s going on. When you look at what drugs are doing… things that make these people drive around and shoot into crowds,” Cosby said.

“The insanity of what is the cause to the brain by all the drugs these people are dealing with. It’s exactly what I warned them about in 2004. They’ve thrown education out the window.

“They’ve thrown respect for the family out the window, and they’re blaming each other for what’s going on. There is post-traumatic stress syndrome, and there are also bad manners.”

While inmates who spoke to NNPA Newswire said they were saddened to see an icon like Cosby imprisoned,

NNPA Exclusive:

He revisited his famous 2004 “Pound Cake” speech and clarified that he probably should not have addressed that controversial dissertation to all African Americans – the residents at SCI-Phoenix make for the perfect audience, Cosby stated. Cosby said he remains concerned, however, for all of Black America.

Bill Cosby (Courtesy Photo)

each said they believe he’s serving a higher purpose. Cosby agreed.

“I don’t belong to the Mann Up Association, but it’s a privilege to come in and speak,” Cosby stated. “I never wanted them to lord me up (be put on a pedestal). This is a great privilege.”

A weekly highlight for Cosby since his incarceration, has been the reform program, Mann Up, where he is often the featured speaker. The program serves to encourage and empower African American men to strive for self-respect and dignity, and to put their family first.

Anthony “Benny-Do” Sutton, Tyree Wallace, Robert Groves, and Michael Butler, each spoke from SCI-Phoenix to NNPA Newswire about the program and Cosby’s influence.

“Every Tuesday, Mr. Cosby and I sit down and talk before the other residents come in and he explains to me what moves I need to make so that Mann Up can be a success,” stated Sutton, 56, who has spent his entire adult life in prison.

“He says to always remember to work as a team. We are all in this life together and Mr. Cosby is a political prisoner and he tells us that we’ve got to save our babies.

We can’t be out there killing our children and our women,” Sutton stated.

Wallace, who has served more than two decades in prison, said Cosby has also opened his eyes because of his authenticity.

“This powerful man, one of the best comics, a legend and here he is with us,” Wallace told NNPA Newswire.

“Mr. Cosby comes into the room with his fist in the air and all of these men rise up and applaud him. He gives us so much wisdom and the Mann Up program is the perfect vehicle. He told us a story about his mother, and how she would have him clean the hallways after guys would go and urinate. He said he’d ask her why he had to clean it, and she told him that you have to clean where you live,” Wallace said.

Groves and Butler echoed their peers.

Both have served more than a dozen years in prison and said Cosby’s presence has helped them to see their lives differently.

Cosby recalled entering Temple University as a young man in the 1960s and his desire to become a teacher.

“I’m not a psychiatrist, and I’m not a psychologist. I’m an educator, and what I look forward to is talking to this group of 400 or so men. Some of them here are in their 70s, in their 50s, their 40s, 30s, and 20s,” Cosby said.

“I tell them what I know and what I feel. I feel that everything that I said in 2004, there is a light [behind it],” Cosby stated.

“The mistake I made [in 2004] is making it sound like all the people were making the infractions, and that’s not true.”

Cosby stated that he believes he’s in the right place at the right time because he’s spent his life and career trying to reach African American men.

“I’m looking at a state [Pennsylvania] that has a huge number of prisons, and the one I’m in, thankfully, has the largest population of African Americans,” Cosby stated.

“These are guys who are also from Philadelphia, where I grew up. Many of them are from the neighborhood.

Michael Eric Dyson said ‘Bill Cosby is rich and forgot where he came from.’

“That’s not true. I’m not calling him a liar; I’m saying that’s not true. What I’m saying is that it’s not the same neighborhood as it was when I was coming up.

“The influx of drugs and what they’ve done with their own history. If they would pay attention to these things and put education first and respect for others first…it’s almost insane to hear someone say they don’t know how to be a father.

“As I said earlier, the revolution is in the home, and we’ve got to put it there. Marvin Gaye’s ‘What’s Going On,’ is very prophetic in that too many of us are dying in these neighborhoods. Too many of us dying and, another quote from the song, is ‘we’ve got to find a way.’”

It’s easy to see the devaluation of the Black family by others, Cosby stated.

He said the shelving of his iconic “The Cosby Show” is proof that those in power have long conspired to remove anything positive from the Black community.

“When ‘The Cosby Show’ came on with the Huxtables, just think about it. While it was running, other networks

and even the media were doing jobs on trying to belittle whatever it represented,” Cosby stated.

Then, with ‘A Different World,’ they really ramped up the rhetoric. “While new shows were coming and we had gone off the air – this is the worst time in the history of television – I remember hearing shows coming on advertising saying this is not ‘The Cosby Show,’ which is an indictment in itself.

“They did not like what ‘The Cosby Show’ looked like for us, and many of us traded into it. Now, look at what has happened. They’ve taken everything that I’ve done and swept it into a place where it would not be shown.

“Thank goodness for TV One and BET, but we’ve got to respect ourselves. We’ve got to have a very, very strong respect for our history.”

Behind the steel walls at SCI-Phoenix, Cosby said he’s at peace.

His fellow residents often ask about his contemporaries like Richard Pryor, whom Cosby once encouraged to use profanity because it fit Pryor’s act.

“It’s a huge smile in my spirit. I can… use their own profanity back at them. I’m saying things to them like, ‘how many times if you have a lamp, do you rub it, give it three wishes. And, how many times can you say mother f—-r and things will come true?” Cosby stated.

“Sometimes, you have to turn on the conjugation of things like slang. You speak it in the home, and that’s what I said in 2004. It was the shock of hearing, ‘Where you is?’, and ‘Where you at?’ and then hear the parents say it too.”

Cosby believes he’s reaching his fellow residents.

“I’m reaching them because they want to be reached.

They’re in prison. I don’t forget a saying, one I quoted or read in a book, which says, ‘I don’t know the secret to success, but I do know the secret for failure.’ You can’t please everybody. I have a feeling that these people [Mann Up participants] really want somebody. They have rappers here who are strong and spirited people. They don’t just blame people; they say, ‘we’ve got to do it.’”

Cosby has also served as a voice of reason in prison.

“I heard a guy say to someone that if someone did something he didn’t like, he’d go out and get all his boys and they’d kill the fella. I said, how much sense does that make? You call your boys, and they want to kill him,” Cosby stated.

“I said to look at all the people you’ve got involved, and when you get caught, you are all going to jail, and you got one dead fella. ‘Call if off,’ I told the guy. I said to him that you need to call your friends, too.”

Cosby often tells his fellow residents about an epiphany he had while serving in the Navy, which has allowed him to remain in good spirits while behind bars.

“I got a wife, family, and friends who are so happy that I have something. I go into my penthouse and lay down and start to think about how I can relay a message and give it on Saturdays (during Mann Up sessions) so that they would hear it and feel it,” Cosby stated.

“This Saturday, I gave a talk dedicated to women. I told the story of my wife, who said to me when she got back home after bringing our 43-year-old daughter back home dead from the hospital. It was the most difficult thing she’s ever done in her life, to sit there and watch her daughter die,” he stated.

“From there, I went into the fact that mothers have something that we all have, which is a navel. We have to respect our mothers and our women. We’ve got to stop buying drugs. If you have no buyer, you can’t sell,” Cosby stated.

After calling back a third time to complete the interview, Cosby said he needed to express the critical role the Black Press has had in telling his story.

“Sixty-five years from now, they will be quoting what you’ve written about your fellow journalists. [Wyatt] has information on how these people have rejected the truth.

You have the information too because you were in that courtroom,” he stated.

“I’m a privileged man. You talk to [NNPA President and CEO] Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., and he will tell you that there is a history of Black political imprisonment in America, and it’s repeating itself in some kind of way.”

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BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 6, 13, 20, 27, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7058 2019-B7059 Doing business as: BROOKE BRATCHER DESIGN, LLC / BRATCHER HOME AND DESIGN at 1219 18th Street, Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: BROOKE BRATCHER DESIGN, LLC, CA, 1219 18th Street, Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 The business is conducted by: Limited Liability Company SIGNED: BROOKE BRATCHER, MANAGING MEMBER The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 10/01/2019 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 7, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R ROBERTS-MARTIN, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 7, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B6483 Doing business as: SAVVY POS AND CASH REGISTERS at 1701, Westwind Drive, Suite 106, Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: SMART MONEY EPS INC, CA, 1701, Westwind Drive, Suite 106, Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 The business is conducted by: Corporation SIGNED: PRASHANT AGRAWAT, PRESIDENT The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Oct 9, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: N FRANCO, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Oct 9, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 6, 13, 20, 27, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7058 2019-B7059 Doing business as: BROOKE BRATCHER DESIGN, LLC / BRATCHER HOME AND DESIGN at 1219 18th Street, Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: BROOKE BRATCHER DESIGN, LLC, CA, 1219 18th

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Street, Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 The business is conducted by: Limited Liability Company SIGNED: BROOKE BRATCHER, MANAGING MEMBER The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 10/01/2019 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 7, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R ROBERTS-MARTIN, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 7, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 2019

PUB: Nov 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 2019 ������������������������������� STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE NO: 2018-B7319 Business Name you wish to abandon: BAKERSFIELD REAL ESTATE SERVICES Street address of business: 5405 Stockdale Hwy S-106, Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 County: Kern Mailing address of business: Same Registrant(s) whose wish to abandon the business name: RONALD SAMEUL PETER WAREHAM, 2109 Westminister Dr., Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Business was conducted by: Individual SIGNED: RONALD SAMEUL PETER WAREHAM, OWNER This statement of abandonment filed on: October 31, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R PADILLA Deputy BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 2019

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7031 2019-B7032 Doing business as: W.O.L POOLS / WATER OF LIFE POOLS at 5704 Marbella St, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 70658, Bakersfield, Ca. 93387 County: Kern Full name of registrant: WALTER MILLER, 5704 Marbella St, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 Full name of registrant: TIKEE D MILLER, 5704 Marbella St, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 The business is conducted by: Limited Liability Company SIGNED: WALTER MILLER The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 05/20/2005 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 5, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R ROBERTS-MARTIN, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 5, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 2019

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE NO: 2018-B7311 Business Name you wish to abandon: BAKERSFIELD PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Street address of business: 5405 Stockdale Hwy S-106, Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 County: Kern Mailing address of business: Same Registrant(s) whose wish to abandon the business name: RONALD SAMEUL PETER WAREHAM, 2109 Westminister Dr., Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Business was conducted by: Individual SIGNED: RONALD SAMEUL PETER WAREHAM, OWNER This statement of abandonment filed on: October 31, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R PADILLA Deputy BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 2019

������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B6937 Doing business as: HOME & DESIGN at 5630 Lake Isabella Blvd, Lake Isabella, Ca. 93240 Mailing Address: 3717 Mount Celeste Ct., Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 County: Kern Full name of registrant: HARPREET SINGH PADDA, 3717 Mount Celeste Ct., Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: HARPREET SINGH PADDA The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 10/28/2014 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 1, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 1, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B6975 Doing business as: E&G AUTO SALES at 1330 23rd Street Unit B, Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: E&G WHOLESALE INCPORPORATED, CA, 1805 Saint Clair St., Bakersfield, Ca. 93304 The business is conducted by: Corporation SIGNED: VERONICA GONZALEZ, CEO The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 1, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: E DEL VILLAR, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 1, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E)

������������������������������� STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE NO: 2019-B4313 Business Name you wish to abandon: BROOKE BRATCHER DESIGN, LLC Street address of business: 6707 Park West Circle, Bakersfield, Ca. 93308 County: Kern Mailing address of business: Same Registrant(s) whose wish to abandon the business name: BROOKE BRATCHER DESIGN, LLC, 6707 Park West Circle, Bakersfield, Ca. 93308 I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Business was conducted by: Individual SIGNED: BROOKE BRATCHER, MANAGING MEMBER This statement of abandonment filed on: November 7, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R ROBERTS- MARTIN Deputy BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 2019 �������������������������������

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF C.E. MOORE aka CLEO EUGENE MOORE CASE NUMBER: BPB-19-003002 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of C.E. MOORE aka CLEO EUGENE MOORE A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by SHIRLEY WHISENHUNT in the Superior Court of California, County of KERN 1215 Truxtun Ave Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that SHIRLEY WHISENHUNT be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: Dec 5, 2019 Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept: P Room: located at 1215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided on Probate Code section 9100.

The time for filing claims will

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YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. IF you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (for DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate code section 1250. A request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Petitioner: SHIRLEY WHISENHUNT IN PRO PER 924 Blossom St. Bakersfield, Ca 93306 Telephone: (661) 366-8076 Fax: E-Mail: PETITION IN PRO PER BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (LHC) PUB: Nov 13, 20, 27, 2019

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF THOMAS J MARTIN JR. CASE NUMBER: BPB-19-002858 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of THOMAS J MARTIN JR. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by PEGGY MARTIN in the Superior Court of California, County of KERN 1215 Truxtun Ave Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that PEGGY MARTIN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: Dec 20, 2019 Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept: P Room: located at 1215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided on Probate Code section 9100.

The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. IF you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (for DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate code section 1250. A request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney For Petitioner: WILLIAM EDWARDS 237587 WILLIAM EDWARDS LAW 168 H Street Bakersfield, Ca 93304 Telephone: (661) 324-0111 Fax: (661) 326-8984 E-Mail: weejlaw@yahoo.com BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (WEL) PUB: Nov 13, 20, 27, 2019

������������������������������� SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): BCL-19-015645 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): OLIVIA MICHELLE STRIPLING YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form.

If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements.

You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of

PUBLIC NOTICE $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.

Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www. sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro.

Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil.

Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF KERN, 1415 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, CA 93301 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, Harlan M. Reese, 118226, Joseph M. Pleasant, 179571, Dana N. Meyers, 272640, James E. Delaney, 292600, 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010; 760/842-5850 (File No. 285187) DATE (Fecha): 7/31/2019 TAMARAH HARBER-PICKENS, Clerk (Secretario), by Esmeralda Salinas, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served 1. as an individual defendant.

11/13, 11/20, 11/27, 12/4/19 CNS-3313424# BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B6640 Doing business as: T’S BOUTIQUE at 700 Geneva Ave, Bakersfield, Ca. 93304 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: TONYA RENEE WILLIAMS, 700 Geneva Ave, Bakersfield, Ca. 93304 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: TONYA RENEE WILLIAMS The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Oct 17, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R ROBERTS, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Oct 17, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 13, 20, 27, Dec 4, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7155 Doing business as: GARCIA’S COMMERCIAL CLEANING at 2700 Macau Street, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: MARICELA GARCIA, 2700 Macau Street, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: MARICELA GARCIA The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 09/15/2019 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 13, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R EDMIASTON, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 13, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E)

PUBLIC NOTICE PUB: Nov 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7142 Doing business as: O&A SECURITY SERVICES at 1201 40 St, Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: J.W OWENS, 2444 Jenkins Rd., Bakersfield, Ca. 93314 Full name of registrant: SASHA WINONA OWENS, 2444 Jenkins Rd., Bakersfield, Ca. 93314 The business is conducted by: General Partnership SIGNED: J.W OWENS The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 10/01/2016 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 12, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R ROBERTS-MARTIN, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 12, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B6986 Doing business as: LASHES BY JANELLE at 10810 Valverde Dr., Bakersfield, Ca. 93311 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: JANELLE CASSANDRA ANTE, 10810 Valverde Dr., Bakersfield, Ca. 93311 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: JANELLE CASSANDRA ANTE The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 04/30/2018 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 4, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R EDMIASTON, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 4, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B6823 Doing business as: HOWARD JOHNSON INN at 2700 White Lane, Bakersfield, Ca. 93304 Mailing Address: PO Box 20448, Houston, Tx. 77225 County: Kern Full name of registrant: WFH BAKERSFIELD LLC, CA, 2700 White Lane, Bakersfield, Ca. 93304 The business is conducted by: Limited Liability Company SIGNED: JACOB WANG, MANGER The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 11/29/2018 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Oct 28, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: E DEL VILLAR, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Oct 28, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7102 Doing business as: VAZQUEZ JANITORIAL SERVICES at 10802 Arden Villa Drive, Bakersfield, Ca. 93311 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: OLGA VAZQUEZ, 10802 Arden Villa Drive, Bakersfield, Ca. 93311 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: OLGA VAZQUEZ The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/01/2019 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 8, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

PUBLIC NOTICE another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 8, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7105 Doing business as: ROCHA JANITORIAL SERVICES at 5300 Gorham Way Apt #1, Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: ANGEL ANTONIO ROCHOA, 5300 Gorham Way Apt #1, Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: ANGEL ANTONIO ROCHOA The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/20/2019 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 8, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R ROBERTS-MARTIN, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 8, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7101 Doing business as: ROMERO’S JANITORIAL SERVICES at 745 Mayer Ln., Shafter, Ca. 93263 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: MAGDALENA ROCIO ROMERO, 745 Mayer Ln., Shafter, Ca. 93263 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: MAGDALENA ROCIO ROMERO The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/20/2019 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 8, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R ROBERTS-MARTIN, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 8, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7091 Doing business as: HEALTHY SMILES FAMILY DENTAL OFFICE at 3450 Stine Rd., Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: LUIS C. ESTRADA, D.D.S., INC., CA, 3450 Stine Rd., Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: LUIS C. ESTRADA, PRESIDENT The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 06/24/2009 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 8, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R EDMIASTON, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 8, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 2019 �������������������������������

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PUBLIC NOTICE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7089 Doing business as: ATLAS CARGO TANK SERVICES at 2122 Wegis Ave., Bakersfield, Ca. 93314 Mailing Address: PO Box 82064, Bakersfield, Ca. 93380 County: Kern Full name of registrant: ANNA LEACH, 2122 Wegis Ave., Bakersfield, Ca. 93314 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: ANNA LEACH The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 8, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 8, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B6981 Doing business as: E&J MOBILE DIESEL REPAIR at 1110 Tulare St., Bakersfield, Ca. 93305 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: ERICK NEVAREZ, 1110 Tulare St., Bakersfield, Ca. 93305 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: ERICK NEVAREZ The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 4, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R ROBERTS-MARTIN, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 4, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 2019 ������������������������������� STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE NO: 2019-B7152 Business Name you wish to abandon: GARCIA’S COMMERCIAL CLEANING Street address of business: 2700 Macau Street, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 County: Kern Mailing address of business: Same Registrant(s) whose wish to abandon the business name: MARICELA GARCIA, 2700 Macau Street, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Business was conducted by: Individual SIGNED: MARICELA GARCIA This statement of abandonment filed on: November 13, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R EDMIASTON Deputy BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 2019 ������������������������������� STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE NO: 2016-B4759 Business Name you wish to abandon: O&A SECURITY SERVICES Street address of business: 2700 Macau Street, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 County: Kern Mailing address of business: Same Registrant(s) whose wish to abandon the business name: J.W OWENS, 720 Huskey Drive, Bakersfield, Ca. 93308 Registrant(s) whose wish to abandon the business name: SASHA WINONA OWENS, 720 Huskey Drive, Bakersfield, Ca. 93308 Registrant(s) whose wish to abandon the business name: PERRY KENNETH ALDERMAN JR, 427 Ferguson Avenue, Bakersfield, Ca. 93308 Registrant(s) whose wish to abandon the business name: HANNAH PAULINE WILLIAMSON, 427 Ferguson Avenue, Bakersfield, Ca. 93308 I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

PUBLIC NOTICE Business was conducted by: Individual SIGNED: J.W OWENS, OWNER This statement of abandonment filed on: November 12, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R ROBERTS-MARTIN Deputy BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 2019 ������������������������������� NOTICE OF HEARING GUARDIANSHIP CASE NO: BPB-19-002503 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF KERN 1215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 GURDIANSHIP OF THE PERSON OF: AUSTIN JAMES GOMEZ Minor This notice is required by law. This notice does not require you to appear in court, but you may attend the hearing if you wish.

1.NOTICE is given that ELIZABETH NUNEZ GOMEZ & REYNALDO GOMEZ, (representative capacity, if any): PETITIONERS PETITOIN FOR APPOINTEMENT OF GUARDIAN OF MINOR PERSON 2. You may refer to documents on file in this proceeding for more information (Some documents filed with the court are confidential Under some circumstances you or your attorney may be able to see or receive copies of confidential documents if you file papers in the proceeding or apply to the court.)

3. The petition includes an application for the independent exercise of powers by a guardian or conservator under: AS SET FORTH IN GC-248-DUTIES OF GUARDIAN 4. A HEARING on the mater will be held as follows: Date: Dec 16, 2019 Time: 8:30 am Dept: P Address of Court Same as noted above Party without Attoney: Elizabeth Nunez Gomez & Reynaldo Gomez 2318 1/2 South I St. Bakersfield, CA. 93304 IN PRO PER BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 2019 ������������������������������� SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): BCV-19-102050 NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): 1 RED INVESTMENTS, INC., a California Corporation; EDGAR CORDOVA, an individual; DINORAH CORDOVA, an individual, and DOES 1 to 10 inclusive, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): SERGIO OLMOS NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form.

If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements.

You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/ selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.

Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www. sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios

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legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro.

Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www. lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil.

Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): Superior Court of California, County of Kern, 1415 Truxtun, Bakersfield, CA 93301 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): ANDREW K. SHEFFIELD ESQ. (SBN 220735) LEBEAU-THELEN, LLP, 5001 E. Commercenter Drive, Suite 300, Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 Telephone: (661) 325-8962 Fax: DATE (Fecha): March 15, 2019 TAMARAH HARBER-PICKENS, Clerk (Secretario), by Layton Johnson, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served.

BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 20, 27, Dec 4, 11, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7308 Doing business as: RLT CONSULTING & SERVICES at 8500 Kern Canyon Rd. SP#104, Bakersfield, Ca. 93306 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: RANDOLPH CHARLES TOMPKINS JR, 8500 Kern Canyon Rd. SP#104, Bakersfield, Ca. 93306 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: RANDOLPH CHARLES TOMPKINS JR The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 20, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 20, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7302 Doing business as: BELL ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES at 3706 Argent St., Bakersfield, Ca. 93304 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: BROOKLYNN KAY MARTIN-BELL, 3706 Argent St., Bakersfield, Ca. 93304 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: BROOKLYNN KAY MARTINBELL The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 20, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R ROBERTS-MARTIN, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 20, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7220 Doing business as: TRIPLE D TRANSPORT at 4900 California Ave. Ste 210 B, Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: DEMARK LONNEL DELANEY, 4900 California Ave. Ste 210 B, Bakersfield, Ca. 93309

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The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: DEMARK LONNEL DELANEY The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 11/09/2017 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 18, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R EDMIASTON, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 18, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 2019

date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 15, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 2019

Winter Pasture Ave, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 County: Kern Mailing address of business: 4725 Panama Lane, D3 #155, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 Registrant(s) whose wish to abandon the business name: DEMARK LONNEL DELANEY, 5001 Winter Pasture Ave, Bakersfield, Ca. 93313 I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Business was conducted by: Individual SIGNED: DEMARK LONNEL DELANEY, OWNER This statement of abandonment filed on: November 18, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R EDMIASTON Deputy BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 2019

y honorarios y costos legales.

Para asesoramiento legal, pongase en contacto de inmediato con un abogado, Puede obtener informacion para encontrar un abogado en el Centri de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio web de los Servicios Legales de Califonia (www.lawhelpca.org), o poniendose en contacto con el colegio de abogasos de su condado.

AVISO-LAS ORDENES DE RESTRICCION SE ENCUENTRAN EN LA PAGINA 2: Las ordenes de restriccion estan en vigencia en cuanto a ambos conyuges o miembros de la pareja de hecho hasta que se despida la peticion, se emita un fallo o la corte de otras ordenes. Cualquier agencia del orden publico que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas orden puede hacerla acatar en cualquier lugar de California.

EXENCION DE CUOTAS: Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario un formulario de exencion de cuotas. La corte puedeordenar que usted pague, ya sea en parte o por completo, las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente exentos a peticion de usted o del la otra parte.

The name and address of the Court is (El nombre y direccion de la corte son:) KERN COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT 1215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 The name, address, and telephone number of petitioner’s attorney, or petitioner without an attorney, are (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son:) MARIELA MORFIN 8029 HICKORY ST. LAMONT, CA. 93241 TOTAL SOLUTIONS, 661-324-4492 ESTHER AGUIRE, LDA #110 Exp: 7/16/20 PO BOX 2261, BKSFD, CA. 93303 Date (Fecha): AUG 29, 2019 (SEAL) Clerk, By: (Acturio), Y. GALLEGOS, Deputy BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 2019

������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7096 Doing business as: LASER DENTAL BAKERSFIELD - DENTAL PRACTICE OF JEANNIE A MOLATO D.M.D at 4801 Wilson Road Ste C, Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: JEANNIE A. MOLATO, D.M.D, INC., CA, 4801 Wilson Road Ste C, Bakersfield, Ca. 93309 The business is conducted by: Corporation SIGNED: JEANNIE A. MOLATO The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 08/08/2019 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 8, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R EDMIASTON, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 8, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7257 Doing business as: ARTS WOOD DESIGNS at 3800 Niles St. Unit 11, Bakersfield, Ca. 93306 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 60285, Bakersfield, Ca. 93386 County: Kern Full name of registrant: ARTURO VILLARRUEL, 3800 Niles St. Unit 11, Bakersfield, Ca. 93306 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: ARTURO VILLARRUEL The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 01/22/2009 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 19, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: A RANGEL VILLASENOR, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 19, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7208 Doing business as: HAWK OIL & GAS CONSULTING at 2704 Judith St., Bakersfield, Ca. 93306 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: NICHOLAS A GONZALES, 2704 Judith St., Bakersfield, Ca. 93306 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: NICHOLAS A GONZALES The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 15, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R ROBERTS-MARTIN, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the

������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7217 Doing business as: SMOKE SCENE at 5210 Olive Dr., Bakersfield, Ca. 93308 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: AHMED MOHAMED ALGAZALI, 5210 Olive Dr., Bakersfield, Ca. 93308 Full name of registrant: ODAI ALI SAEF, 5210 Olive Dr., Bakersfield, Ca. 93308 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: AHMED MOHAMED ALGAZALI The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 08/01/2019 This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 15, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 15, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 2019 ������������������������������� FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO: 2019-B7203 Doing business as: BALLOON BOUTIQUE at 22309 Corral Court, Tehachapi, Ca. 93561 Mailing Address: Same County: Kern Full name of registrant: YVETTE CHRISTINE, 22309 Corral Court, Tehachapi, Ca. 93561 The business is conducted by: Individual SIGNED: YVETTE CHRISTINE The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A This statement filed with the County Clerk of Kern County on: Nov 15, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: R EDMIASTON, Deputy This fictitious Business Name Statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the County Clerk’s Office. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another to a trademark or trade name under federal, state, or common law (see section 14411 ET SEQ., business and professions code).

I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A) Registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false, is guilty of a crime This statement expires on Nov 15, 2024 BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 2019 ������������������������������� STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE NO: 2019-B7288 Business Name you wish to abandon: RLT CONSULTING & SERVICES Street address of business: 8500 Kern Canyon Rd. SP#104, Bakersfield, Ca. 93306 County: Kern Mailing address of business: Same Registrant(s) whose wish to abandon the business name: RANDOLPH CHARLES TOMPKINS, 8500 Kern Canyon Rd. SP#104, Bakersfield, Ca. 93306 I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Business was conducted by: Individual SIGNED: RANDOLPH CHARLES TOMPKINS, OWNER This statement of abandonment filed on: November 20, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ Deputy BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 2019 ������������������������������� STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE NO: 2017-B7559 Business Name you wish to abandon: TRIPLE D TRANSPORT Street address of business: 5001

������������������������������� STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE NO: 2017-B5756 Business Name you wish to abandon: WONDERLAND PET SPA Street address of business: 20601 Valley Blvd. Suite # A-104, Tehachapi, Ca. 93561 County: Kern Mailing address of business: 20601 Vallie Blvd. Suite # A-104, Tehachapi, Ca. 93561 Registrant(s) whose wish to abandon the business name: JOSE MANUEL DUENEZ, 29641 Stallion Springs Dr., Tehachapi, Ca. 93561 I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Business was conducted by: Individual SIGNED: JOSE MANUEL DUENEZ, OWNER This statement of abandonment filed on: November 19, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ Deputy BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 2019 ������������������������������� STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FILE NO: 2017-B4742 Business Name you wish to abandon: SMOKE SCENE Street address of business: 5210 Olive Dr. Suite #C, Bakersfield, Ca. 93308 County: Kern Mailing address of business: Same Registrant(s) whose wish to abandon the business name: AHMED MOHAMED ALGAZALI, 10805 Fieldstone Dr., Bakersfield, Ca. 93306 Registrant(s) whose wish to abandon the business name: ODAI ALI SAEF, 3414 S. Fairfax Rd., Bakersfield, Ca. 93307 I declare that all information in this Statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information, which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

Business was conducted by: General Partnership SIGNED: AHMED MOHAMED ALGAZALI, OWNER This statement of abandonment filed on: November 15, 2019 MARY B BEDARD County Clerk By: M HERNANDEZ Deputy BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (E) PUB: Nov 27, Dec 4, 11, 18, 2019 ������������������������������� SUMMONS (Family Law) CITACION (Derecho familiar) NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: AVISO AL DEMANDADO (Nombre): FRANCISCO RAFAEL MORFIN You are being sued. Read the information below and on the next page. Lo han demandado. Lea la informacion a continuacion y en la pagina siguiente.

PETITIONER’S NAME: EL NOMBRE DEL DEMANDANTE: MARIELA MORFIN CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): BFL-19-003589 You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this Summons and Petitions are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, or phone call, or court appearance will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your right to custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay child support and attorney fees and costs.

For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courts. ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website (www. lawhelpca.org), or by contacting your local bar association NOTICE-RESTRAINING ORDERS ARE ON PAGE 2: These restraining orders are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgement is entered, or the court makes further orders.

They are enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them.

FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party.

Tiene 30 dias de calendario despues de habir recibido la entrega legal de esta Ciracion y Peticion para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL-120) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante.

Una carta o llamada telefonica o una audiencia de la corte no basta para protegerlo.

Si no oresebta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar ordenes que afecten la custodia de sus hijos.

La corte tambien le puede ordenar que pague manutencion de los hijos,

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JUANITA B. ROBINSON CASE NUMBER: BPB-19-003060 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of JUANITA B. ROBINSON A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by TINA DAVIS in the Superior Court of California, County of KERN 1215 Truxtun Ave Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that TINA DAVIS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval.

Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: Dec 19, 2019 Time: 8:30 a.m. Dept: P Room: located at 1215 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, Ca. 93301 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the deceased, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided on Probate Code section 9100.

The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. IF you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (for DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate code section 1250. A request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Petitioner: TINA DAVIS 1221 Riverwood Hacienda Heights, Ca 91745 Telephone: (626) 968-6911 Fax: E-Mail: BAKERSFIELD NEWS OBSERVER (PS) PUB: Nov 27, Dec 4, 11, 2019

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Debate Clash on Race Pushes Issue to Forefront Continued from page A2

Wednesday night during a discussion of race that he’s often “felt like a stranger’’ in his own country – a version of a point he makes frequently on the campaign trail when he says he understands what it’s like to watch politicians argue over his civil rights.

He clarified his intent Thursday while pushing back on Harris’ characterization.

“There’s no equating those two experiences _ and some people, by the way, live at the intersection of those experiences,’’ he told reporters. “What I do think is important is for each of us to reveal who we are and what motivates us.’’

Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic consultant in South Carolina, said Buttigieg should expect more scrutiny now that he’s a consensus top-tier candidate. But Seawright downplayed any apparent tensions between gay rights and black civil rights.

“I think that our party and our country is made up of the experiences of Kamala Harris and Mayor Pete, so I don’t think that Mayor Pete can walk two and a half steps in Kamala’s shoes, and I don’t know if Sen. Harris could ever walk in the mayor’s shoes,’’ he said.

Cory Booker, the other black candidate on the debate stage in Atlanta, avoided weighing in Thursday morning.

Sanders and Warren, meanwhile, also found themselves on the political tightrope of white candidates navigating discussions of race.

Set to deliver a speech on race with a focus on black women, Warren was interrupted at Clark-Atlanta University several times by dozens of black protesters from Powerful Parent Network, a group of school-choice activists. They stood down only after U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts took the microphone from Warren.

“The senator is here to talk about fighters like you,’’ Pressley said, adding that the protesters, in drowning out Warren, were keeping her from telling the story of black women already marginalized.

Warren, buoyed by a gymnasium filled with a boisterous, racially diverse crowd, called for a “full-blown national conversation about reparations’’ for slavery as she praised black women for helping build the country and advance causes of social and economic justice. And she had blistering remarks for a long run of structural impediments beyond slavery, from Jim Crow segregation to modern-day mass incarceration and red-lining practices that make it harder for minorities to get mortgage loans.

“Black history is American history,’’ Warren said. “And American history teaches us that racism has for generations shaped every crucial aspect of our economic and political

A tense exchange between Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris after the white mayor connected his experiences as a gay man to black Americans’ long struggle against racism. system.’’

“Some of you know, I’m Jewish,’’ Sanders said, as he and all that crap is about, and our place together is that we She then offered a litany of policy proposals: new spoke near the statue of slain civil rights leader Martin will do everything humanly possible to end all forms of spending at historically black schools, repealing the 1994 Luther King Jr., a Morehouse alumnus. “My father came to discrimination in this country.’’ crime law, legalizing marijuana, overhauling federal this country from Poland. He came fleeing anti-Semitism.

Sanders, 78, went on to tell of his 1960s activism, housing policy, student loan debt forgiveness.

A lot of people in my father’s family did not make it out describing himself and his fellow white students as “not “I am not afraid,’’ she said to roars. “And you cannot of Poland. quite so brave’’ as black citizens in the more dangerous Jim be afraid either.’’

“They were murdered by the father of white supremacy, Crow South. But, he said, “I was arrested and went to jail Sanders, speaking earlier at Morehouse University, Adolf Hitler,’’ Sanders continued. “So I learned at a very fighting housing segregation in Chicago.’’ leaned on his own biography, like Buttigieg. young age what racism and white supremacy and Aryanism

Black Caucus Visits US-Mexico Border “Mistreatment of Black Immigrants is Another ‘Stain on America’” Continued from page A1

paralyzed on his left side when he arrived at the hospital.

After undergoing treatment for a brain hemorrhage, Bass said Abienwi was taken off life support against his family’s wishes and died.

Doctors listed his official cause of death as brain death due to a brain hemorrhage.

“Thousands of African and Caribbean immigrants who immigrate to the United States of America are treated as if they are invisible,” Bass stated.

“Many arrived in South America and then walked north, all to be dehumanized and mistreated at our southern border. We [went] to the border to hear what they have been through. They are an important piece of this story,” Bass said.

In a statement, officials at ICE said they’re still in the process of reviewing Abienwi’s death.

According to various published reports, the Department of Homeland Security records had revealed that Abienwi applied for admission into the country at the San Ysidro Port of Entry without proper paperwork on September 5.

He was taken into custody by ICE on September 19, 2019.

Bass said his death remains a mystery and is cause for concern.

CBC members also pointed to a recent Pew Research Center study that revealed that there are more than 4.2 million Black immigrants in the United States, with Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America making positive contributions to the United States.

However, those immigrants are at a higher risk for arrest, detention, and abuse because of racial profiling and racial bias, according to the Pew report.

“We need to shed some light on what is taking place here as it relates to Black immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa,” stated Lee, the chair and majority leader of the House Task Force on Poverty, Income Inequality, and Opportunity.

“They came here fleeing from violence in their own countries, getting to a place where they thought they could be treated humanely,” Lee stated. “It’s been the opposite.

They are dehumanized, treated in a racist fashion, and then

stuck at a border town.

“I hope the Black community understands that this is another example of Trump’s racist policies to make America White again. We see that every step of the way in this process.

“Black America has to rise up. This has got to stop.”

Lee added that she’s putting out a call to Black professionals, be it psychiatrists, social workers, and others that their help is needed to help people of color at the border.

“They desperately need our help. Certainly, some Black professionals can provide services that are needed to help them,” Lee stated.

“A lot of them will get very sick, a lot are traumatized and already unhealthy. They will need to be able to survive – they’re barely surviving now. I’m issuing the call. This is yet another stain on America.”

Clarke, the chair of the House Task Force on Immigration for the CBC, said it’s tough to fathom what Black immigrants face at the border.

“These people are resilient, they have gone through

quite a few things in their homeland that drove them to try and get to the land of the free and the home of the brave,” Clarke stated.

“We have to speak for them. They don’t have a voice.

These are people who will be persecuted if they return to their homeland where there is genocide, other hardships, and violence,” she stated.

“We have to be their voices. The Trump policies are totally illegal.”

Gyamfi, of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, said she was moved by what she witnessed.

“You can look in their eyes. They had a sense that finally, they’re looking at people who look like us, and who actually care,” Gyamfi stated.

“They heard the voices of our leadership. But they see the anti-Blackness throughout the entire system. This is a humanitarian crisis where human rights violations are happening daily.”

February to March of 2020 - that’s when the education starts to move in to motivate and activate. That’s when we want everyone on the ground - from high school students all the way to our elder folks - to understand and be ready to respond. So, the efforts we’re doing right now are focusing on the importance, and it’s really about two things. It’s about power and it’s about it’s about money.

We talked a little about power, about being heard when it comes down to it. And it might be a little bit nerdy, but it’s our Congressional representation, too. So, we could lose a seat or two - very serious - if we’re not counted and they don’t know where we are. So, I already joke around that we don’t need Texas to be counted. They don’t need to answer (laughs), but I mean it’s because it’s a zero-sum game in terms of the way they divide up the seats. It all depends on the response of other folks.

And it’s about money. People say “Oh! It’s about $1,000 per person, per year!” But what does that actually mean? The way I think about it when I talk to my 16-year-old daughter is: What if she, for a semester, didn’t have a chair to sit in, or a desk to sit at during her math class at this public high school? If they don’t know we’re here, if we forget children - and children 0-5 have often, in the past three decades, been missed for a number of reasons. A child that is born in 2020 will be in 5th grade in 2030, and if they’re missed, will they have a seat or will

Will that health clinic be located close enough? I always talk about how a friend’s dad had a stroke, and he had to travel 10 extra minutes to get to a hospital because there wasn’t one close enough, and those 10 minutes can make a difference between life and death or being disabled or being able to heal. So, in terms of health care, in terms of schools, our education, in terms of traffic, everyday traffic, the roads are getting worse and worse, but if we don’t know, we’re unable to plan for how many people are going to have cars. It has everyday impact on our lives.

CBM: Let’s talk more about the fear factor. For instance, in the Black community, you may have someone with Section 8 (housing assistance), or people who may have formerly incarcerated persons, still in the system, living in their homes. One big issue is the trust factor with the Black community. People are like, “We’re not telling the government anything!” How have you all been able to get your message to permeate that attitude?

DK: There’s been a lot of testing done, and so we’re well aware of that. And there are different trust issues for different communities. And so one of the things we’ve been looking at is if they’ve tried different messages. But, at the end of the day, people think everybody’s going to get stuff on their Facebook and WhatsApp. At the end of the day, for me, even if technology is really quick, it’s really that face-to-face, that person-to-person communication that is most important. That’s human nature and that doesn’t change. That’s why the investment that we put out there has been to make sure that people in the community, whether it be faith-based, whether it be service-based - your hair stylist, your nail technician - whether it be community members that you already deal with, or even your healthcare professional in your clinic. We want to go where people go already in the community and we want them to be trusted. A part of that is being able to tell people that there’s Title 13 that guarantees privacy.

People are like, “Well, why do they need to know my name? Why do they need to know all this stuff?” And I think about it and it seems kind of invasive, but they do keep it private. No enforcement agency, federal, local, or anything, can get that data, so it’s safe.

I view the Census as a snapshot in time, like those coffee table books, and if you’re not counted, you’re missed. And then, to quote my favorite play “Hamilton,” “who will tell your story if you don’t?”

So it’s to up to us to rise up, to be counted, and to be able to put a stake in the ground to say “I’m here, and there’s no reason why I shouldn’t be recognized and counted.”

Count Everyone Don’t be Invisible

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level, we looked at the state and we took these14 variables and we came up with a hard-to-count index based on them.

(Those variables are: Percent of households without broadband subscriptions; percent of households that are non-family; percent of households that are renter occupied; percent of housing units that are vacant; percent of households that are crowded with more than 1.5 persons per room; percent of population that is foreign-born; percent of adults (25 or older) who are not high school graduates; percent of population with income below 150 percent of the poverty level; percent of households receiving public assistance; percent of persons (ages 16 or older) unemployed; percent of limited-English households; percent of persons who moved from outside a county in the past year; percent of population under 5; and percent of total housing units with three or more units in a multi-unit structure.)

What does that mean? Well, that is really because the enumeration is address-based, so it’s where you are. In order to be invited, you have to have an address, right? Think about the difficulty of counting people that are living in multi-unit apartments, or if they’re living with non-family members. So, say there is an apartment, and there are four of us living there, and we’re not related. Sometimes, one person will get the mail and the invitation to respond, and they’ll respond for themselves but forget the other three roommates. So, it sort of compounds itself in terms of the difficulty to be counted. And, of course, we have a lot of people who rent. We have a lot of people here in Los Angeles that have limited English, or that are new to the country. We have a lot of folks who are scared, or just kind of don’t care, and so it’s not just one thing that makes folks hard to count.

It’s a number of things if you kind of layer them on top of each other.

CBM: Why is the Census important for the Black community?

DK: It’s important for all our communities, of course, but particularly for the Black community. I mean they have to know we exist for us to resist, right? And if they don’t know we’re here, then we’ll be ignored. I say that both for the Black community and also for the Native American community. My Native American folks up in Northern California, the way they look at it is to save their water, and that’s what really resonates with them, because if they don’t know you’re there, they’ll take the water. That’s how they feel, so you have to think about that within your community. If people don’t understand how strong and how powerful our communities are, they don’t understand what kind of voice we could have and will have. So, it’s really about being seen. It’s about standing up. It’s about no longer being invisible for all of our communities.

CBM: What has been your outreach efforts in the

community so far?

DK: We’ve divided the state into regions, and so here in Region 8 is the Los Angeles County area. We have a contractor - California Community Foundation - and they’ve really done a great job looking at the data and then identifying partners because they’ve been involved in L.A. a lot. And they’ve been funding partners on the ground to talk about it right now. This time around, we’re doing an education component. We’re also identifying what I call the grass-top leaders, so maybe not all the way down to the ground just yet, but folks that are leaders and movers and shakers in the community to let them know why it’s so important.

Then, as we move into Spring – from January and

t h e y have to sit on the ground? So, in terms of money, it’s about health clinics.

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Being a Black Veteran isn’t Always Happy – Part II

Beyond the Rhetoric

Mr. Alford is the Co-Founder, President/CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce ®. Ms. DeBow is the Co-Founder, Executive Vice President of the Chamber. (Courtesy Photo)

By Harry C. Alford & Kay DeBow NNPA Newswire Contributors Let us repeat our first paragraph from Part I: “America is in love with its veterans. That’s the way it should be.

Veterans who served in our military to provide security and a safe future for our citizens. These are our heroes and we should respect and appreciate the sacrifices they make for us. However, the love and bravery they show is not always appreciated. A big determinant and indicator as to how that veteran is going to be treated is his race or the race of those who make the decision to honor or ignore his efforts.

Harry lost two good friends during the Vietnam War. First, let’s talk about Patrick G. Fitzsimmons. Pat went to Buena High School in Ventura, California while Harry matriculated at Oxnard High School in nearby Oxnard, California. They were both football stars during their high school days and went on to Ventura Community College to further their education as well as hone-in on their football skills in hopes of playing major college ball.

Harry met his goals and played for the University

‘The Christians’ Features a 1960s Louisiana Love Story

By Cora Lester The Drum Newspaper The Christians, book one, follows the life and love of Mary Jean Woods, a young, Christian woman in 1960 South Louisiana as she maneuvers through self-discovery, unrighteousness, and betrayal in hopes to find a true spiritual identity.

Through this first release, B.J.T Ledet weaves a story that answers “What exemplifies a Christian?” and introduce readers to characters who boldly feel right–even all-knowing– in their beliefs when they are flawed and some are fallen.

The Christians deals with the distinctive differences and interactions between the characters who consider themselves Christians and those who don’t. Meet ministers who are in the business of religion instead of uplifting the people and teaching them to love. Meet the ‘show and tell’ flock alongside the church Mothers who have tunnel vision and live in the past.

Using romance, family scandals, and murder, the novel questions who is and is not a Christian and how the interactions between family and friends impact the spiritual growth of young adults. B.J.T. Ledet is a retired Hurricane Katrina survivor who worked at Tulane University in New Orleans. She attended Southern University and A&M College and Tulane University. Currently, she gives back to the community by tutoring kids inside her home while working on completing the trilogy. Ledet enjoys writing from her Baton Rouge home where she lives with her spouse, a dog, and a cat. Published by Jozef Syndicate, The Christians (ISBN 978-1944155209) is available on Amazon and at www.jozefsyndicate.com/creators/b-j-tledet/

BOOK REVIEW: With much anticipation, B.J.T Ledet, a Baton Rouge educator, has released the first a new adult, religious romance trilogy: The Christians.

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of Wisconsin, graduated in 1970 and was inducted into the Army (via the Draft) in 1971. Pat, however, had some trouble keeping up his grades and entered the Army January 4, 1970. His tenure in the Army took off like a rocket. He became a Warrant Officer and a helicopter pilot. He started his Vietnam Tour on January 4, 1970.

Pat, while on reconnaissance was shot down on August 24, 1970. Some of his crew survived but Pat was killed instantly. Pat’s service and sacrifice gave him instant hero status. He received formal hero ceremonies and the football stadium where he and Harry played together was renamed in his honor.

Pat was awarded the posthumous Purple Heart.

His family received Death Benefits which were at the time $15,000. He served proudly and was rightly honored for his sacrifice. His Vietnam URL on the War Memorial in Washington, DC is www.VirtualWall.org/df/ FitzsimmonsPG01a.htm Prior to Pat’s demise, Harry had another good friend and distant cousin. Ivra Allen Tatum aka “Speedy.” Speedy was very popular, a member from the large and prestigious Tatum Klan based in Ventura County. He was born and raised in Stephens, Arkansas. There was the contrast between Pat and Speedy. Pat, white and an athlete with a load of charisma while Speedy, a handsome Black with a load of ladies chasing behind him.

Speedy’s biggest challenge would be his Arkansas roots. His selective service office back there would play into the Jim Crow discrimination that ran rampant throughout the South. Blacks were being drafted at exponentially higher rates than whites especially in the southern states.

Death rates were also unfair based on the race of the soldiers. Speedy was drafted into the Army as a member of a helicopter crew (like Pat) on March 26, 1967. He was a corporal with a specialty of Light Weapons Infantry and was assigned to the 1st Aviation Brigade, 187th Aviation Company. Just like Pat, he was destined to flying helicopters. However, his tenure would quickly come to an end – less than 4 months of service. His “chopper” went down with no survivors.

This is when racism rears its ugly “head.” It took a few days to find the remains of Speedy’s helicopter. As opposed to recording his death as “Killed in Action,” they classified it as “Non-Hostile Died While Missing, Air Loss Crash.” This is very significant. Our government wanted to suppress military deaths. Body counts were very political.

Speedy is likewise honored on the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial in Washington, DC. Name inscribed at VVM Wall, Panel 23e, Line 32. Why did they describe Speedy’s death in such a strange way? They avoided giving him the Purple Heart Medal. This speaks volumes!!! Also, and therefore, they didn’t have to give his family the due Death Benefits ($15,000) Speedy received: Combat Infantryman Badge, National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Distinguished Unit Citation, Vietnam Gallantry Cross and the Good Conduct Medal. But there will be no Purple Heart!

It has been 52 years and the Tatum family are still hurt and outraged by the omission of their war hero.

This example of racial contrast is just one of many, many thousands of cases that happened during US military theatres.

Mr. Alford is the Co-Founder, President/CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce ®. Ms. DeBow is the Co-Founder, Executive Vice President of the Chamber.

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God’s Chosen Disciples” Presents The Last Christmas “

Chamoni Norwood, 17, always had a passion for writing. She started writing in the 6th grade when her teacher assigned a project to add song lyrics to a song already made. When she wrote her lyrics, everyone loved it. Her teacher told her that she’s talented and one day she will be famous. She kept those words with her forever.

As she got older she realized that she loved to tell stories.

Norwood wrote her first play at 14 in 8th grade. She wrote, directed and produced a short, sweet play called, “Remembering Christmas.” However, during this time she was struggling with severe depression and anxiety. Writing was her way of keeping herself alive. She believes that it saved her life. Now, Norwood is thriving in her senior year of high school. She’s a varsity cheerleader, president of The Black Student Union (BSU) and an excelling student at Golden Valley. She is focused on her taking care of her mental health and focusing on her future.

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Chamoni Norwood

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Join us for an evening of fun, laughter, and light refreshments Date: Saturday, December 14, 2019 Location: God’s Church of Deliverance 405 Haley Street Bakersfield, CA. 93305 Doors open at 6:00pm. Play starts at 6:30pm.

Admission is FREE!!

By ADAM BEAM Associated Press SACRAMENTO, CA (AP) – California Gov. Gavin Newsom cracked down on oil producers Tuesday, halting approval of hundreds of fracking permits until independent scientists can review them and temporarily banning new wells using another drilling method that regulators believe is linked to one of the largest spills in state history.

The state Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources announced it will not approve new wells that use high-pressure steam to extract oil from underground.

It’s the type of process Chevron uses at an oil field in the Central Valley that leaked more than 1.3 million gallons (4.9 million liters) of oil and water this summer.

That process is different from fracking, which uses water and other chemicals at high pressure to extract oil.

California has 263 pending fracking permits but has not approved any of them since July. That’s when Newsom fired California’s top oil and gas regulator after learning the state had increased fracking permits by 35% since he took office in January, angering environmental groups.

Newsom, a Democrat, called the crackdown necessary

to strengthen the state’s oversight of oil and gas extraction “as we phase out our dependence on fossil fuels and focus on clean energy sources.”

“This transition cannot happen overnight; it must advance in a deliberate way to protect people, our environment and our economy,” Newsom said.

California has been a leader on environmental issues, with Newsom’s Democratic predecessor, Jerry Brown, making climate change his signature effort. Brown was criticized for failing to ban fracking or oil drilling, arguing that the state needed to tackle demand before moving on to supply.

The oil industry called Newsom’s changes “disappointing,” with the Western States Petroleum Association saying California’s environmental regulations already lead the world.

“Every barrel delayed or not produced in this state will only increase imports from more costly foreign sources that do not share our environmental safety standards,” group president Catherine Reheis-Boyd.

Have We Not Considered the Children in the

Development of a Homeless Site?

By Tiara King Opinion Piece to the Editor Addressing homelessness must be approached as a community issue, while endorsing the safety of our children living in the community of any new shelter facility. Placing a homeless shelter in Southeast Bakersfield has the potential to expose an already struggling neighborhood to additional stresses. This includes impacting neighborhood children.

A child’s learning and development is strongly influenced by their environment. The activity within the neighborhoods where children live, play, and go to school, matter to the health and wellbeing of kids.

The social, economic, cultural, and built characteristics of children’s neighborhoods are integral to their development.

Living without the stability of a home and residual income has serious impacts on the health and well-being of individuals subjected to this reality. However, what is not often discussed are the moral implications of society’s acceptance of ill-proposed solutions to homelessness, as well as the effects of homelessness on social cohesion, inclusion, and harmony. Features of neighborhood social organization do matter and are selectively important to childhood development. Unfortunately, the condition of

living in homelessness increases the risk of criminal activity, mental illness, and substance dependency. Individuals suffering from the effects of dangerous living arrangements and unstable housing are at a greater risk of mental and physical health problems than the general population, they experience social problems exacerbated by their situation, and are more likely to become involved in criminal activity than the general public.

Almost two thirds of transient individuals struggle with a substance abuse problem, nearly twenty percent of the homeless population in Bakersfield are registered sex offenders, and an estimated twenty-five percent have some type of mental illness. Placing a homeless shelter in Southeast Bakersfield would potentially increase risk exposure detrimental to neighborhood children’s development. A risk that is proven to be associated with negative behavioral and academic outcomes.

In considering a location for this shelter, it is important to realize how these risk factors are strong predictors of later outcomes- including academic performance, cognitive development, and social and emotional well-being.

Understanding this evidence, and designing neighborhoods and infrastructures around it, could solve longstanding, seemingly intractable social and learning problems.